You’re just suckered into the opposite trap, thinking you’re noble and heroic because you deny yourself the pleasures everyone else enjoys

None, he’s a terrible student.

I’m suggesting reputable businesses could sell dosed mixtures just like they do in a clinical setting. A pill or solution with the appropriate amount.

Legalized doesn’t mean unregulated, people went blind during prohibition due to dangerous moonshine but it’s incredibly rare now as it’s brought from licensed manufacturers.

People really seem to think Biden should have a magic wand, or should somehow impose things the majority of Americans are against and when he can’t they say he’s the devil. It’s so silly.

I’m far more radical left than most people and I’ve come to accept that, I have faith in the strength of my ideas and that they’ll displace capitalism but understand it’ll be a struggle and a fight. Biden has very likely literally no concept of the ideals I value, I imagine it’d take me hours to explain the importance of open source software for example and I don’t expect he’d take it on board very seriously even at best so of course I wouldn’t pick him as the leader of my.movememt but that’s not what people are being asked to pick, they’re picking the president of the whole country so of course he’s also going to have to work in the existing frameworks and with the many factions that exist.

A lot of my American friends are buying into this both sides thing, they say prices are up and the democrats aren’t doing enough to deal with the climate so neither really care about anything…

I’ve been an eco obsessive since the 90s so to me it’s painfully clear the night and day difference between the two parties, trying to explain it is so hard because they’ve got their talking points like more drilling under Biden than Trump but when you try to talk about the lag effects related to leased land it’s all just hand waved away - they’ve seen people talking about it as true and not mentioning that lease sales are at all time lows which will result in significantly less permits in future years so it’s ‘Biden bad, end of story.’ Saying ‘they say there’ll be less but they say anything, they said there would be less now’ totally ignoring the logic of the argument.

Right wing psychological experts plan these talking points and seed them, the left falls for them every time it’s so frustrating.

I think part of the problem is people want the world to be simple, the immigration issue is another thing a lot of my left voting friends are struggling with at the moment, blaming the housing crisis on immigration for example then I point out immigrants working construction is super common and they say why don’t they work instead of being put up in hotels so I say there’s a complex process involved in getting a right to work designed to protect American jobs and many are rejected and returned to their country of origin without obtaining this right… but again ‘it’s super complex and messy but they’re trying to improve things’ is easily shrugged off just like with the climate argument by saying ‘they only say they’re trying, trying means nothing only actions matter’

The problem is the two parties play totally different games with totally different objectives. One is trying to tangle a ball of yarn into.a mess and the other is attempting to untangle it and knit a cardigan.

But most people didn’t even get past act two and the most common complaint is it’s so big you end up in a hundred unrelated quests and quest items with no idea what any of them are about.

Honestly I’d love something similar but a bit more manageable thoigh of course I’m happy to accept it’s not a game for me and hope those the enjoy it love it.

There’s this thing I’ve noticed on Facebook, I don’t fully understand but they post things Maga really want to be true like ‘try that in a small town singer smashes tailor swift attendance record’ with an obviously unrelated or fake picture. The comments are almost everyone acting like it’s true, there was one about some woke companies share value falling fifty percent with everyone celebrating then once comment linking to a share price tracker pointing out its not even close to true.

I don’t know who makes them or why but the comnent section believes them.

Didn’t his son in law get billions from Saudi despots in return for access to classified documents?

I know everyone loves having biases confirmed but we’re also not stupid, we know how the internet and evidence works. A random comment getting spam canned means almost nothing.

If this is true it’ll be incredibly easy to make a really good case for it which would be a potential news story - however I suspect that it’s just a glitch

I think it’s a lot more common than most people would realize. Capitalism hates talking about things that let’s normal people do things for free.

That’s why we as regular people need to spread the word as effectively as possible.

If my data was worth that much I’d sell it myself

It’s a good conspiracy they’ve got answers to all the questions, ‘what about all the huge piles of evidence that clearly show he wrote them?’ Is easily answered by ‘just pretend it doesn’t exist!’

Best is when they say Edmund Spencer wrote them or someone, it makes so little sense I almost hope it’s true.

Did they really interview a statistically respective portion of the ivory coast to get this almost worthless metric? Seems a huge amount of resources which could have gone somewhere useful if so.

As a European I agree, visiting the US I’m always shocked how nice places are, like Baltimore has got a great atmosphere and a lot of really cool places, Pittsburgh was really cool too with the big fountain and everyone enjoying the river and stuff. They’re both cities I hear people shit on endlessly but compared to most cities I’ve visited in Europe they’re really nice.

My main culture shock in the US is how friendly everyone is, I told a crackhead I didn’t have any cash on me and he recognized my accent said ‘welcome to america’ and it felt like he meant it, my top ten friendliest interactions with strangers are all in the US or Germany.

Your police and boarder control are absolutely crazy of course, it’s scary that there are so many nuts with guns and some of your prices are just fucking wild but all in all anyone saying it’s 3rd world or dystopic is living in a weird fantasy.

I was with you until you childishly suggested that the rightful rulers of China are an imperial dynasty rather than the will of the people. It’s like calling America West England and claiming Charles is the rightful ruler because you disagree with the Vietnam War.

But yeah china would never allow free expression on their version of tiktok but let’s ban free expression because china does is a bad argument. Let’s make choices based entirely on merit and circumstance.

If you really look around things are way better than they ever have been, like hugely better in practically every metric.

It’s OK to enjoy life

And it’s designed as propaganda so of course they’re not going to say ‘oh is ten min now, we can all relax’ the whole point is underscore the urgency of things

Weed is orders of magnitude cheaper than therapy

Humans are amazing, I know it’s cool to be edgy but we’re doing great and looking good doing it.